1920's Culture and
Economics
Pro-Business
 20’s
Presidents – Harding, Coolidge
and Hoover
Pro-Business
Republican
Keep taxes down in order to allow
businesses to expand
High tariffs on foreign goods to
force Americans to buy American
 Airplane
Major Changes
use expanded – package
delivery -> Passenger flights (Charles
Lindbergh & Emilia Earhart)
 Ford’s Model T = $290
New businesses – gas stations,
motels, shopping centers
Urban Sprawl – people living
further away from work (Suburbs)
Lindbergh and Earhart
Model T
New Inventions
Electricity in the Home
Washing Machine
Vacuum Cleaner
Sewing Machine
Refrigerator
Birth
of the Advertisement
Industry
1920's Advertisement
Fundamentalism
 Movement
created in the 19th century
but grew in the U.S. in the 20’s
(especially the South)
 Skeptical of Science
 All important knowledge could be
found in the Bible
 Literal translation of the Bible
Science v. Religion
March
1925 – Tennessee outlawed
teaching of evolution
John T. Scopes challenges law and
is arrested
“Monkey Trial” – Scopes defended
by Clarence Darrow v. Prosecutor
William Jennings Bryan
Scopes found guilty and fined
Darrow and Bryan
Scopes Trial
20's Women
Flapper – Free-thinking young
woman who embraced the
fashions of the 1920’s
New
Roles in workplace and
family
Double Standard – different set
of principles for men and
women
Flapper
Expansion of Education
Pg. 446-447 Before 1920 During the
20’s
Enrollments
Types of
Courses
Immigrants
Financing
Emergence of Pop Culture
Radio
– Broadcast nationwide
Jazz and Blues – 2 American
born forms of music
Sports Stars are born
Americans begin going to the
movies
1920's Radios
4 Athletes Sport Accomplishment
20's Sports
3 Artists Field
of Art
(One not
in bold)
What made their
artwork unique?
20's Music
4 Authors
Titles
(Leave
blank)
American Literature
Sinclair Lewis – 1st American to
win Nobel Prize in Lit
F. Scott Fitzgerald – Theme of
Youth and Prosperity
Edna St. Vincent Millay – 1st
Woman to win Pulitzer Prize
Ernest Hemingway – characters
that related to audience
Lewis, Fitzgerald and Hemingway
Future Problems?
What were three potential economic
problems developing during the 1920’s?
 Pg. 426-427

Future Problems?
Installment
Plan – people buying
products on credit
New Machinery makes farming
more efficient – lowers price of
crops
Growth of business increases gap
between workers and managers